Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Continued Education on Ship

One of the big things in the modern military is that there is a huge push to get everyone in some sort of class for higher education. A person can’t get into the military today without a high school degree or a GED and having more college courses on an advancement evaluation than other people means a higher ranking among those trying to get promoted and a more probable promotion. On modern ships there is often a professor on board for any long deployment. That professor teaches a class multiple times a day to accommodate differing work schedules. They meet in a smallish room with a long table that has a computer at each seat and a projector set up on the network to show on a touch screen for the professor to manipulate. When class isn’t going the room is open for those with internet courses or those who just want to get on computer to write their family or friends.
In the future there may be computers in everyone’s individual room but if you plan to have more than five people per room, you should consider having a room with a few public computers so people aren’t fighting each other for time. Also people will always be trying for a college degree for when they leave the military or for faster advancement in their chosen job. You should at least consider how your fictional crew would go about getting classes.

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